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Athalus · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject: Assassin's Creed 2.

I thought the first Assassin's Creed was great, it was bigger than Prince of Persia and looked fantastic. But, as everyone knows, it got repetitive and relied on you completing the same tasks. Plus too much time was spent with boring Desmond to shoehorn a story, which wasn't too bad, uncomfortably in. But, and this a big 'but, the sequel looks phenomenal. Ezio is more agile, enemies are smarter, there's an economy system where you can earn money to recruit thieves, mercenaries or courtesans; spend it on upgrades for your armour and weapons, or buy new stuff like smoke bombs and bullets for the hidden gun.
What I think I'll like about this is the doing away with the repetitive nature, and a bigger focus on the player controlled characters life. Missions are meant to be a lot better and there will be more of them, around 16 instead of 4. Plus, the game takes place over 30 years of Ezio's life, starting as a young Florentine and progressing to a master assassin. You'll often meet characters in the story who you will have to assassinate many years later, plus the guilds (thieves etc.) will pay you to do their bidding; it looks there will be more of a focus on actually killing people creatively (the emphasis on that has been adjusted to keeping your hands, figuratively, clean) than pick pocketing or duffing up a carbon copy.
I'll just make a boring list (because this has been so riveting already I thought I'd tone it down) of what I am excited about:

- upgradeable weapons and equipment
- guilds who you can work for and employ
- better acrobatics/ climbing
- more ways to assassinate, such as double assassination
- Leonardo Da Vinci will be inventing your weapons from plans you find, as well as input from other historical characters
- a better plot for the assassin
- secret areas that you can access in each city that look to be a bit like Akham Asylum's challenge rooms
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Gay, the Eagle · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

I'm cautiously excited.

I mean, the first game was good but very shallow, despite that it was enjoyable through to the conclusion. I've been reading various articles and it seems this'll be a far more involving experience, with the focus squarely on the actions of your past self instead of all the Desmond malarky. The new weapon system should keep the fight interesting (the main repetition, for me, was the fighting) with each type of weapon hopefully bringing a new combo tree to the combat.

Not sure about day one, but i'll pick it up close to there, anyway.
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Cudpug · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject:

I'm betting it'll be a solid 8/10 game. Possibly 9/10 if all goes well. I'd give the first one about 6/10 personally. I found it got incredibly boring very quickly. The gameplay was just a rinse-and-repeat of the same things again and again for the majority of the game. This is looking to have much more variety though.
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LittleAl16 · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't this be in the General Gaming forum? (Just saying as the game in question is gonna be on the PS3, XBOX 360, PC, and the iPhone OS.)

But anyway, it's definitely on my want list. I enjoyed the first one, so this certainly has my interest.

Athalus · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject:

Whalesong~ · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

Why aren't we playing as Altair this time? Crying or Very sad

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Athalus · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject:

Lhyon · Lord Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 2433

I want Di Vinci to make me a tank.

Then maybe I could pretend to be a cart? If a blatantly armed man who is wanted by all the guards around can pretend to be a scholar and get away with it...
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Whalesong~ · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

So how is it ^.^? One of my friends is going to the mall tomorrow to pick it up...so I'll probably be stealing it off him sometime soon Very Happy

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Lhyon · Lord Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 2433

Looks like it's been getting solid 9/10 reviews by average players and critics alike.

If I could play it, I'd have it already. Looks like a blast.
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Gay, the Eagle · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject:

C'mon, two more days til I get my hands on this. My whole friends list have been on it D:
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Athalus · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

I still have five more memory blocks to go on this, at least I think it's five. I'm on number nine and the last one, in the achievements, is memory block 14, but 12 and 13 aren't there. Oh well, I'm really enjoying it, especially working my way through the Assassin's tombs - only one left.
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.:Tree:. · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

Just ordered this now. A few vids on Machinima tempted me.

2 days or so....woo!
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Whalesong~ · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:45 am Post subject:

Played it...and I felt like The Ferryman Very Happy

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Athalus · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:20 am Post subject:

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Athalus · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject:

****ing luck upon a duck! This is stupid now, it can't be read - the disc isn't being read by the XBOX, frecking Modern Warfare 2 is read, but not this.
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Athalus · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject:

Whalesong~ · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:22 am Post subject:

He's fired out of a cannon ^.^

Did anybody else see this little gem?

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Athalus · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject:

Is that the DS version of Assassin's Creed?
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Ivan · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject:

PSP version, Bloodlines.

Rannie · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject:

Athalus · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject:

I've been looking at Assassin's Creed 2 DLC and I found two articles that are kind of interesting:

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Whalesong~ · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject:

It's the iPhone version, yuppy ^.^

Milking a game or what ^^;;
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Athalus · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject:

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.:Tree:. · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject:

I suppose they have to make their extra money somehow.
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Athalus · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject:

Yeah, because Ubisoft and Infinity Ward are really struggling. It is good though that the Call of Duty 4: Wii will have the same multiplayer that was on the 360. It doesn't really appeal to anyone on here, but you can't deny it won't be popular.
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Whalesong~ · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject:

Cudpug · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject:

Whalesong~ · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:18 pm Post subject:

.:Tree:. · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject:

Just completed the main storyline on this, and it is very....very cliffhangerey.

Im still ponding what is going to happen.

(Im not going to go into detail if people don't want to be spoilered.)
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Cudpug · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject:

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Whalesong~ · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:49 am Post subject:

I won't be buying this game...I just prefer Mirrors Edge Confused

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Gay, the Eagle · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:43 pm Post subject:

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